• Madan Swaroop, a professor of English literature in his fifties, recalls 25 years of his married life on his flight to Kanglung, Bhutan, on a teaching tenure. • His beautiful wife is an ardent Krishna devotee a la Mira Bai. She restricts marital sex to once a week, which leads to conflict and comedy. • A vivid description of the college campus and the Bhutanese way of life follows. • He gets involved with two of his students • There are parallel dialogues between the wife and her god and between the husband and his organ. Shades of Calvin and Hobbes! • The imagery of cricket for sex creates its own humour. • In the midst of human characters, a god's shadowy presence looms over the happenings. • A Joycean epiphany at the end caps it all.